We have Indian applicants for the web developer jobs we have open at the moment, and invariably they all seem to have achieved degrees with honours in less than 2 years, often more than one degree in the same time. I refuse to believe that any degree achievable in less time than an equivalent UK degree is worth anything, let alone two.

And then, the number of those applicants who then claim to have achieved another major qualification in a London college or university in only a few months... Especially when you can link those London colleges to visa fraud stories in the national media.

It would take a lot for me to take an Indian graduate at face value.

How do you say "Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia without checking the citations " in Hindi?

FTFY

I could buy Apple being more robust or more reliable (because it's probably WinDOS we're talking about here) but the idea of the PC being less powerful just sounds like you swimming in the kool-aid.

whereas cruise couldn't be used below 50mph.

What? I've owned or driven dozens and dozens of cars and I've never encountered a higher low end limit than 25mph for cruise control, many work at 15 or 20 mph.

> But in practice we have half the population who are capable of programming but who are severely underrepresented

That's a totally unsupported assumption.

It also ignores the question of DESIRE. It completely degrades half of the population by stripping them of any sort of free will at all.

That's the whole problem with these do-gooder crusades that fixate this kind of "imbalance" while ignoring the the imbalances in the skilled trades or nursing.

That's fine until MS gives them a break on the Windows license if the SecuteBoot can't be disabled. OEMs will lock out alternate OSs at the drop of a hat if that happens.

But, hey, it's all about choice.

The main reason that distribution became a monopoly was due to the over crowding of spaces with dozens of companies running their lines - take a look at the following link for an example:

http://io9.com/photos-from-the...

To stop the over crowding, power companies were forced to merge and de-clutter the streets.

"Working out" really burns very little in terms of energy unless you are overdoing it like Arnold Schwarzenneger. You aren't going to get a sufficient calorie deficit just from exercise.

The main value of exercise is sabotaging your body's starvation response.

Otherwise, your body will just adapt to the famine. That's what it is designed to do.

Yup. That's why you need to EXERCISE. Excercise will increase your metabolic rate for about 18 hours afterwards. This will help counteract your body's tendency to go into panic shutdown mode due to lack of food.

Diet and exercise.

They go together like a horse and carriage.

ANY effective weight loss is going to be counter to your instincts. You will have to fight your inner animal. It won't be easy. It WILL be unpleasant.

STARVING is never fun.

Your inner animal is basically holding it's breath for the duration.

If it were easy, anyone could do it and it wouldn't be such a problem.

"Don't anythng that wasn't alive" is a poor way of putting it.

It's more like, don't buy anything ready made. Buy only agricultural commodities. Buy only components.

You avoid most of the junk that way.

You need very little fat. You can cut most of it out and not have any problems (besides hunger). You can cut most of the carbs too. The real problem is protein rather than fat or carbs.

Carbs and fat are for energy. They're pretty much what you need less of.

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